Charles W. Field

Charles William Field (6 April 1828-9 April 1892) was a Confederate States Army Major-General during the American Civil War and an Egyptian Army colonel.

Biography
Charles William Field was born in Woodford County, Kentucky in 1828, and he graduated from West Point in 1849 and served in the US Army on the frontiers of New Mexico, Texas, and the Great Plains. In 1861, he rendered his services to the Confederacy, which made him a major in the 6th Virginia Cavalry. He served in A.P. Hill's division of the Army of Northern Virginia during Stonewall Jackson's 1862 Valley Campaign, and he was severely wounded in the leg at the Second Battle of Bull Run. It took a year for Field to recuperate, and he rejoined the army in Tennessee in March 1864, later suffering two wounds at the Battle of the Wilderness and fighting at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House. He continued to perform well at the Battle of Cold Harbor and the Siege of Petersburg, and his counterattack at the Second Battle of Deep Bottom on 16 August 1864 turned the tide of the battle against the Union. In April 1865, he and his 5,000 men surrender at Appomattox Court House, one of the few units still in fighting condition. In 1875, he became a Colonel of engineers in the Khedivate of Egypt, training native engineers and supervising construction projects. In 1877, he became doorkeeper of the US House of Representatives after Eppa Hunton vouched for his loyalty to the United States, and he worked as a civil engineer before dying in 1892.